Arkansas Online · Mar 10, 2021
Wolves get taste of Jones
JONESBORO -- Tuesday's spring practice opener at Arkansas State University gave most of the Red Wolves their first taste of what practice is like under first-year Coach Butch Jones, but not junior quarterback Layne Hatcher.
Hatcher, then a walk-on at Alabama, overlapped with Jones during the first of his three years on the coaching staff of the Crimson Tide in 2018, so the first practice of the spring on the turf at Centennial Bank Stadium -- in structure, style and intensity -- felt familiar.
"There are a lot of similarities [to Alabama]," Hatcher said. "Some of the drills he's brought with him and the way practice is laid out is pretty similar.